Pandala dolosa

Pandala dolosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Pandala
Walker, 1855
Species: P. dolosa
Binomial name
Pandala dolosa
Walker, 1855

Pandala is a monotypic moth genus in the Eupterotidae family described by Francis Walker in 1855. Its single species, Pandala dolosa, described by the same author in the same year,[1] is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Adults are brown, the wings with several darker brown, slightly oblique, zigzag bands.[3] Hindwings have four waved postmedial lines and a curved submarginal line.[4]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pandala dolosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. Pandala at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 4: 922
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. I. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 29 September 2017.


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